Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-09-28
NEWS N BRIEF.

gen county, New Jersey, the other day.
An orange wine factory "a 10 be
established Ia Florida by an English
firm.
The japanese make cheese from
beans and peas.
If 32 100000 persons should clasp
hands they could reach around the
globe.
The Gazetta. of Venice, was the
original model of the modern news
paper.
Linen WAS first made in Eng
land in 1858, and only worn by the
luxurious.
The first breed was made by the
Greeks, and the nrst wIndmills by the
SaTacens.
Books in their present form were
first made 10y Attaius, King of Berga-
mus, in S37.
Counterfeit two-dollar silver Ger
tificates are giving considerable trouble
in New Jersey.
The model oc the first English
steam vessel was lald before the board
of admiralty in l7S9.
The late 5. J. Tilden, it is said,
owned property in England to the
amount of $500 ,OOO.
The first royal letter was written
10y Henry V. TO the Bishop OF Dur
ham, February 10, 14lS.
Buffalo Bill and his entire troop of
Indians attended church in London re-
Gently IN full war paint.
Two young ladies' OF Massachusetts
have been caring good living by
teaching whist il New Y ERIK.
G. or
given by the friction of two globes OF
quicksilver in the year I647.
The first house ever numbered in
London was one abutting east of Nor
thumbeTland House, Strand.
"A pious family in New York is
said to have converted a parrot from
profanity and taught it prayer.
The drafted men of Kingston,
New York, want she $500 back which
they paid for substitutes during the
war.
Mrs. Rachel Lloyd makes 81 800 a
, year teaching chemistry to the stu
dents of the Nebraska State Univer-
sity.
-Chsuncey II. Depew, Jay Gould,
Russell Sage, Cyrus ". Field, and lots
OF other men, do not drink, smoke or
? chew.
Sergeant Mason, who became noto-
= rious during tue Guiteau excitement,
is now prosperous farmer IN Vlr-
, GINA.
$ Nearly 10 per cent. of the inmates
) Of TIE New York City Insane Hospital
;, are foreign born, the superintendent
= states.
II -Encouraged by recent gains the
= Geatiles of Salt Lake, Utah, viii en-
= deayOr TO carry the next municipal
; election.
Apples in Maine are suffering
from the ravages OF insects, and crop
!, only about oue-third that of last year
a IS expected.
; Herr Radeck, after holding the po-
r. sitiOn Tor about twenty-five years, has
retired from the cOnductOrship Of the
/. Berlin Opera.
e The property valuation of Seattle.
II Washington Territory, is said to have
T increased 3, 5,O0O,O 900 OF nearly double,
II III two years past.
o "A crab with perfectly white shell,
5 the first, old fishermen say, ever seen
1 there, WAS caught a few days ago in
s the waters of Long Island.
) The insanity of a young married
q man in Spartansburg Is. c. is attrib-
) uten by the attendant doctors solely TO
! his excessive use Of cigarettes.
l twenty-five men are at work in
, Bath, Maine, on what is intended 10 be
the largest steam-tug in the world. 1t
is to be used for ocean towing.
-Four hundred acres of land in Cal
. lfornia have been purchased by a party
4 OF japanese, who think seriously of
> converting 1t into tea farm.
!; Russia will celebrate, on October
"A 30, the tiftieth anniversary of the open
8, ing of her FIRST railroad. The country
. now has 1900 miles OF railroad.
, -Blue1sh, scarce enough at most OF
/, their former haunts on the New Jer-
q sey coast. have been ''swaImlng' on the
r Long Island Coast for some days past.
l. The fat men of Brussels, Belgium,
: have formed a club that had a short
time ago reached membership of 80.
= y weight of not less than 200 lbs. is
= a condition of membership.
y An Oconee CGeorgIa) man has a
" Gander that follows hIm around like a
: dog, and will sound the alarm when a
'C stranger enters the yard, and attacks
ii the intruder with his wings and beak.
ie "A youth of II years is IN Jail at
- kiDgJOn, New Y Ork, awaiting the sit
"a ting of the grand jury, on a charge OF
~ forgery, though his family alleges that
~ he could never either read OF write.
- "A crystal of alum twelve feet higI
.. and six in diameter was shown at the
oF Royal Jubilee Exhibition in Manches
n ter. 1t is of the finest quality, and il
~ said to be the largest crystal ever made
8. Extensive street improvements al,
ed being made in Cincinnati, and th,
c. Commercial states that when they arr
ld completed Cincinnati can boast Oi
D. being one of the best paved cities il
s. the world.
ce "A gorilla having been adverti eC
lg as among the attractions IN BOstOI
a museum, a naturalist visited the place
he and writes to a local newspaper tina
BIT the animal is only babOOn, and that
I'd Furthermore, there has never been
live gorilla IN America, and very few il
on Europe.
ed Captain Ryan, of the Gloucester
IL. Massachusetts, schooner Story, whicl
has just reached home after fishin,
trip of several months TO the coast O
O Greenland and Iceland, reports grea
"a destitutIon among the natives, am
ba says that many OF them have lef
IN through the aid of the Canadian Gov
nv ernment to take up land in Manitoba
he Mrs. Herbert, a patient In a publi
lat institution at Joliet, Illinois, who ha
ut. been to all appearances asleep for 81
ne. days, with the exception of one or tw
ler brief intervals, is now so greatly ex
nd hausted and emaciated that the physi
If clans (who are said TO be completed
no puzzled by the case) are OF the cpinio
a that her death is quite near.
is An enormous boa constructor, sur
nd posed to have escaped from a neigh BOZ
he ing circus. was encountered by work
nd men engaged II cleansing the famou
me subway in Paris used for sewers, telt
OF, graph wires, water pipes, etc III